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Brian Bilbrey April 8, 2012

School and Lexi

First, Lexi ... She's a dog who epitomizes dogness, especially in the napping department. But when it comes to bed neatness, well, it's not her long suit. This bed had been made, before Lexi decided to climb back in for a late afternoon nap: You say, no, that's not Lexi ... You're the slob, Brian. Not so. See: But she's not very good at looking guilty, is she? * * * When all was said and done with the PeopleSoft upgrade of MyUMUC, many things were broken. THANKS, UMUC! For one thing, my instructor from the Software Engineering course has…

Brian Bilbrey March 30, 2012

Training Week

A week of intense training, VMware vSphere 5 Fast Track presented by Global Knowledge, is now done. I had the benefit of a great instructor: Scott South. But my brain is bursting with information about this latest update to the VMware product line. Also, Spring session at UMUC is almost done for me. I've got one paper-ish thing to write this weekend, and then wait for the 'A'. Yeah, but I'm not just being smug: I've got 86 points going into this last week, and 12.5 points still to be graded, so it's a reasonably certain 'A'. Much more statistically…

Brian Bilbrey March 25, 2012

Good news, bad news

The good news is twofold. First, my penultimate deliverable for the Software Engineering class is in the hopper - two sections (about 11 pages) of an SDMP document. One more week of reading and writing puts that class to bed. Second, it looks like my effort to finally purchase materials and get the cold frame built (see yesterday's post) is going to pay off: we're likely to see frosts Monday and Tuesday nights. With luck what I built protects what I'm growing. Third (yes, third, this is a bonus good thing, for some definition of good), I've got a week-long…

Brian Bilbrey March 18, 2012

Team Project DONE; Now, Lasers!

I've been working like mad on a team project for my CMIS330 class, it's due tonight, and happily, I think it's done! I've got it out for review to the team members right now, and hell or high water I'm turning it in at 2100 EDT. It makes me want to build robots with Laser Eyes (thanks to JoCo) and loose them upon the world. * * * Our condolences to the familes, friends and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Jesse J. Grindey, 30, of Hazel Green, Wis., died March 12, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Spc. Daquane D.

Brian Bilbrey March 4, 2012

I'll rest when I'm dead

I took off from work a couple of hours early on Friday. At that time, I was still feeling a bit off my feed - this whatever it is that isn't a cold anymore has been kicking my ass. So I "took it easy" this weekend: I slept in past eight both days! Thanks, Lexi!!! After that, though, no rest for the wicked. I put in about 12 hours writing for both classes yesterday. Today: Shopping, washed the car, cleaned the dining room, weeded out the raised beds, and seeded/prepared for snow peas. Then I reviewed the writing I did…